Improved mode in cutting boots



UNITED STATES GEORGE A. BROWN, OF MILFORD, MASSACHUSETTS.

IMPROVED MODE IN CUTTING BOOTS.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 41,904, dated March 15, 1864.

To all whom it may concern Be it known that I, GEORGE A. BROWN, of Milford, in the county of Worcester and State of Massachusetts, have invented certain' new anduseful Improvements in Boots and Shoes; and I do hereby declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact description of the same, reference being had to the accompanying drawings by the letters of reference marked thereon.

Owing to the adaptation and introduction of machinery to perform the greater part of the labor of the manufacture of boots and shoes, it has become of greater importance to cut the stock most economically. This is the object of my invention, and its nature consists in giving such improved form to the front or vamp as shall secure this object and supply the place of the corners and parts left oft' by pieces from the scraps ot the shop otherwise wasted.

In the drawings, Figure 1 is a side view of a boot made up. Iiig. 2 shows the pattern of the vamp or front, the same letters referring to the same parts in each.

The dotted lines B B and O in Fig. 2 show the form of the old pattern for crimping, and shows the difference in size of both patterns to make the same size boot, the curved cuty from J allowing the front to be lasted without crimping the piece O, filling the space, and the piece D, coming between E and I, enables the latter to be made so much shorter. These pieces, not coming to so much wear as other parts, may be made of poorer stock, or if not, the savingof stock in using the scraps is found much greater than the labor of inserting the small pieces.

I am aware that boot-vamps have been eut so as to make up without crimping. This I do not claim; but,

Having thus described my invention, what I claim as new therein, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is p Forming a boot upper by means of two lcurved cuts, J J, of increasing radius, and interposed pieces C D, all as herein shown and described.

'GEORGE A. BROWN. Witnesses:

GEO. W. BLIss, W. M. PEKER. 

